Chapter 595: Energy Reactor
The changes of the Odin orc tribe have affected the merchants of the Byron Alliance, and they have begun to speed up the pace of transporting goods to this side, and carry out the final trade carnival.
Or three or two years, or ten or eight years, if the relationship is too tense, there will never be a chance to restart.
The Broken Blood Fortress activated the border exchange market this time, taking advantage of the West Odin Empire's plot against the East Odin Empire, even if he knew that they were making small moves in the back, he didn't have the energy to pay attention to them.
If they want to open a mutual market in the future, it will not be a unilateral matter of the Broken Blood Castle, but it also depends on the attitude of the Xiodin Empire, if they are determined not to allow it, they only need to station a few large tribes on the border line to block those small and medium-sized tribes who are willing to trade, and even turn into horse bandits and directly eat the goods they trade.
Another thing that makes people feel the smell of war is that the military supplies from the Eternal Night Army are constantly being transported to the Broken Blood Fortress.
100,000 barrels of black powder, that is an out-and-out big order, from the moment the order is received, there are already black powder barrels loaded on the road.
There are only 30,000 barrels of black powder that are really transferred from the Eternal Night Army, which is the basis of the inventory produced in the past to cope with the war.
For the remaining 70,000 barrels, the Eternal Night Army Leader is going to lease land near the Broken Blood Fort to open a new arsenal, and directly transport raw materials from all over the country, and now produce them exclusively for the Broken Blood Fort.
The formula of black powder is no longer a secret, there is no need to keep it secret like before, it is only a matter of time before the Broken Blood Fort gets black powder to establish its own arsenal for production, they only have a short golden trade period of a few years, during this period, it is fundamental to find ways to reduce costs and maximize benefits.
After a few years of money from the Broken Blood Castle, I can just package and sell these arsenals to them.
Sean never expected others not to develop, just made sure he was always ahead of others.
Moreover, the arsenal of the Eternal Night Army Leader basically does not produce primary model products, this kind of product that is regarded as a treasure in other territories has been a semi-obsolete process in the Eternal Night Army Leader, and is mainly used to make fireworks.
Not only is it not very powerful, but the smoke generated during the explosion is too large, which seriously affects the soldier's vision, especially after being made into a cannonball.
The Eternal Night Commander has found a new and improved formula for black powder, and in a short period of time, there is no way for other territories to follow suit, because the charcoal used in the improved black powder is not fired by ordinary processes, but is calcined by using fire attribute spell energy, and this charcoal particle contains a lot of fire elements.
The benefits of this are obvious, the flammability of the fire element will make the black powder burn more thoroughly when it explodes, not only emitting less smoke, but also the power of the explosion is naturally greater, although there is no way to compare with smokeless gunpowder, but only as a cannonball, it is enough for a short time.
As for the research and development process of smokeless gunpowder, the formula has already been worked out, and it is the raw materials that limit the mass production of the Eternal Night Commander.
Smokeless gunpowder can't be used to extract materials directly from nature like black powder, and it can be mixed together.
In fact, black powder to smokeless gunpowder is a purification process, no matter what material is used, the chemical principle is basically the same - flammable and explosive materials are burned in a short time to release energy.
If the combustion process is not complete and there is too much residue in it, no matter how the raw materials used change, it is still in the category of black powder.
Black powder is not just a name, but describes a class of the same product, at most a different color of the smoke coming out.
If it can be completely burned and only a small amount of smoke is released, it can be called smokeless powder regardless of the material.
There are very few substances produced in nature that are very pure.
If you want to use it in large quantities, it must be artificially purified.
This purification process is more dependent on the industrial system, especially for mass production.
After all, it is not only a matter of power, but also a cost performance.
If smokeless gunpowder is too expensive to manufacture, it is also not suitable for large-scale replacement of black powder.
In a word, the current development model of the Eternal Night Warlords is too deformed, and the emergence of many things is limited by their current industrial system and pre-technology.
Until this is done, a lot of things can only exist in the form of theories.
At the foremost of these is industrial energy.
The Eternal Night's original industrial energy sources were wind and hydropower.
A large number of windmills and water-powered mills gave birth to the first steps of their industrial system.
Windmills and water mills are capable of more than just grinding wheat.
The first batch of thousand-forged steel under the command of the Eternal Night Army was made by using a hammer driven by water power and using traditional blacksmith craftsmanship.
Later, some large-scale sewing machine equipment was driven by water power.
This kind of industrial energy is only the most rudimentary use of the forces of nature, not to mention the very low utilization rate, and it is also very unstable and very limited by the geographical environment.
The industrial plants led by the Eternal Night Army for the first few years were all located along the Jacob River.
With the resumption of the Jacob River, the Eternal Night Warlords opened up the relationship with Angelbena, and after having a stable source of coal mines, their industrial energy began to slowly shift to coal-fired steam boilers.
Coal-fired steam boilers belong to the most basic steam boilers, and there are no big problems in technology, and the main problems are still in raw materials at the beginning.
This kind of equipment is closed and high-pressure, if the raw materials are unqualified, it is easy to fry the furnace if you are not careful, and its explosive power is not inferior to tens of kilograms of black powder.
The first batch of coal-fired steam boilers led by the Eternal Night Army were large and bulky, and they relied entirely on the quantity of materials to make up for the lack of quality.
This situation only changed after the Eternal Night Army's steelmaking technology was on the right track, and it was assisted by magic black technology.
Coal-fired steam boilers have become smaller and more widely used.
With the intervention of magic black technology, the development ceiling of coal-fired steam boilers is obviously much higher than what Sean knew in his previous life.
Because both the way energy is used and the energy utilization rate is much higher.
As mentioned earlier, spell energy represents an elemental movement trajectory, and as long as there is a place for energy transformation, there will be a large amount of spell energy gathered.
All energy transformations, in fact, can be thought of as a mass of magical energy that has come together.
Here's a very simple example.
Dry wood burned into flames.
In fact, this can be seen as the collapse of the elements that build firewood, decomposing and transforming into the fire element.
In order to make it easier for warlocks to cast spells, the use of spell mediums follows this principle.
In the past, Sean was limited by his previous life thinking, and only thought about using a gas steam boiler to convert it into power.
Affected by the great development of the application of magic this year, Sean began to change his thinking.
Convert all the energy into magic energy before using it.
In this way, it is not just as simple as converting into kinetic energy, don't forget that the Eternal Night Commander also has a series of magic black technologies, especially those wonderful magic circuits, the reason why they are limited to the Northern Fortress is completely limited by the energy reaction room, and there is no way to provide large-scale magic energy in other places.
With the magic transformation of coal-fired steam boilers, their magic black technology will have the opportunity to be used on a large scale.
In Sean's eyes, even the Magic Coal-fired Steam Boiler is a transitional replacement product, and the ultimate product is the kind of energy reaction chamber in the Northern Fortress.
Compared with the Magic Coal-fired Steam Boiler, the benefits of the energy reaction chamber are many.
Once it is successfully built, it is not consumed in other aspects except for the cost of materials, whether it is wind, or the flow of water, the pulsation of the earth's crust, the sun's light, etc., everything that can be converted into magic energy, all of which are collected by it and gathered into magic energy.
This is a universal energy harvester, the whole process, no consumption and no pollution, is simply the most ideal energy source.
The energy reactor is not without its flaws.
That is, the process of collecting magical energy is relatively slow, and it is also limited by the natural environment.
Let's just say that the energy reactor doesn't like the kind of sunny weather.
A series of catastrophic environments such as thunder and lightning, wind and rain, earth shaking and mountain shaking are its love.
In this environment, it collects magic energy at the fastest rate.
The god of death is not wrong about one thing, the magic energy is the out-and-out destroyer of the balance of this world, and it will bring more than just biological disasters to this world, and when the concentration of magic energy increases to a certain level, the activity of various elements will be greatly increased, and then it will be accompanied by a series of natural disasters.
The area with a high concentration of water elements, the temperature is low, prone to freezing disasters, and the snowfall and rainfall are abnormal, the most typical representative of the Kentana Ice Field, the average temperature here is more than ten degrees lower than other areas at the same latitude, and even dozens of degrees when it is high.
Areas with high concentrations of fire elements are prone to spontaneous combustion, fire, and other phenomena.
In areas where the earth element is abundant, earthquakes are frequent, and even volcanoes may occur.
In areas with strong wind elements, there are many strong winds and hurricanes.
The Northern Fortress is because of the energy reaction chamber, and the high concentration of magic energy will be sucked back by it before it reaches the level of disaster.
For the sake of the future living environment, it is also very necessary to build an energy reaction chamber on a large scale in the territory, which is a later story.
By the time the elements in the natural environment are active enough, the speed at which the energy reactor chamber can absorb the energy of the spell may be enough.
But now, if the entire environment is still in a period of lack of magic energy, if it is used on a large scale, it is obviously not enough.
Most of the magic energy used by Sean in the Northern Fortress was not produced in the energy reaction chamber, but the inventory in the energy reactor chamber.
Therefore, the first energy reactor of the Eternal Night Army Leader that Sean is going to build is not pure, but is ready to fuse it with a coal-fired steam boiler, and then it will be a standard dual kinetic energy.
The energy reaction chamber itself absorbs a part of the magic energy, and the coal-fired steam boiler itself converts the energy to produce a part of the magic energy, and the combination of the two can give full play to its power.
In this state, the energy reaction chamber can no longer be called an energy reaction chamber, but should be called an energy reactor.
Currently, the Eternal Night Warlord is trying to build the first energy reactor in his realm in Brother Harbor.
This matter is naturally handled by Sean himself, and there is a doppelganger of Sean here all the year round.
There are many reasons why the first energy reactor was chosen here, but there are two core reasons.
First, with the development of the Danube Plain, the importance of this place to the Eternal Night Warlords will become more and more important.
This will be the future main food producing area and light industry center of the Eternal Night Army, and possibly even a population center.
The natural danger of the Andes Mountains is certainly its advantage, but it is also its disadvantage.
Most of its environment is not suitable for human habitation, except for the banks of the Shuangjiang River and the Andes Basin, the surrounding mountains are not uninhabitable, but in terms of transportation, even with the world-famous construction technology of the Eternal Night Army, it is quite difficult to develop here.
As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads.
Without convenient transportation, even in modern society, it is extremely disjointed and remote.
And the effort is not proportional to the gain.
With the Danube Plain as a better direction of development, how could the Eternal Night Commander abandon the easy?
With the passage of time, the plan of the new forces of the Eternal Night Army in the Danube Plain will enter the third stage - the return of personnel.
When that time comes, regardless of the Andes, crocodiles, and Kentana barbarians, they will have a common name - the people of the eternal night.
Regardless of whether they used to be half-farming, half-fishing, half-swimming and half-hunting, their life will become the most typical farming life here.
For this kind of life building, the Eternal Night Commander is already quite adept.
Plan your roads in advance according to the favorable terrain of the local area.
Then in the right location, the corresponding villages and towns will be built.
Those who come to open up the wasteland in the eternal night, just carry their bags and move in.
As for a series of daily necessities such as farming tools, cattle, sheep, poultry, seeds, etc., the territory will prepare everything for them, which is more comprehensive than they think.
The advantages and disadvantages of this method are obvious.
The downside is that most of the cost is on the side of the Eternal Night Leader.
This is not only to pave roads for free, but also to help villagers build houses and dormitories for free.
Although this kind of house dormitory is not comparable to ordinary residential houses, most of them will use the kind of large walled forts that are easy to defend and multi-occupant, and if you want a comfortable and beautiful house, you need to work hard with your own hands, and then build it slowly by yourself.
Even so, looking at the entire Ashane Continent, the territories that dare to do this have no semicolon except for the Eternal Night Army Leader.
This is no longer a question of high financial demands, but a very high one.
The Eternal Night Warlord only dared to do so when he monopolized most of the foreign trade share and the arms business was booming.
As for how long it will last, no one can assert it.
The commercial trade driven by the rise of the Eternal Night Warlords is not as simple as stimulating the people of the Eternal Night Warlords.
Even the commercial trade of the Byron Union was stimulated, and capitalism, which had been in its infancy, thrived like a fertilizer.
This is determined by the general environment, the Byron alliance has maintained the current pattern for many years, those lords and nobles have lost the direction of expansion except for fighting and dying internally, but their greed for wealth is endless.
The Eternal Night Warlord is now overjoyed to open a new door for them, and one by one they want to make more money through commerce.
The wealth they have accumulated over the years and the power they have made them the most natural capitalists, although they are mutants of feudal lords and are not pure.
It is really difficult to say whether they will make money or give money when they rashly set foot in the mall.
But people never look at the losers, they look at the winners.
Only those who are like them have amassed a lot of wealth, and countless people will follow them.